No one undergoing a crisis in any story by J. D. Salinger need ever have missed a bath on the way to his or her suffering; no one who has missed a bath need ever have felt welcome to appear. The crises of Salinger’s fiction are the crises of people who are better than people like you.

I get worried whenever I hear relatively intelligent people getting behind films like Avatar, describing it as “an immersive experience,” because whenever I attend one of these clobberfests I feel like I’ve been hit in the face by a bucket of shit, which is also an immersive experience.

Anyone who says that assaulting people with hammers is wrong is just failing to accept the new hammer-assault reality of the digital age. Found this in my Google Notebook today. Can’t remember where this is from, but it does sum things up nicely, doesn’t it?

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